Triptych Inspired By Oresteia of Aeschylus 1981 - Huge

Year1981

Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil, With the Printers Blindstamp, Below Left : Arts. 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromAuction House 2021 

Story / Additional InfoTitle: Triptych Inspired by Oresteia of Aeschylus L'Orestie d'EschyleMedium: Three Lithographs in colours , 1981 , on one sheet of Arches Infinity watermarked paper, with full margins, signed by the artist in pencil, with the printers blindstamp, below left : ARTS.LITHO.PARIS There were also 25 copies in Roman Numerals plus 10 artists proofs Literature: Francis Bacon: Estampes - collection Alexandre Tacou Number 12Bruno Sabatier, Francis Bacon: The Graphic Work, no. 16Miguel Orozo “The Complete prints of Francis Bacon” : Reference 81-83Note: The prototype for this work is displayed in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway. It is a very large Triptych, Oil on canvas, with each panel measuring each 198 by 147.5 inches. Each of the three parts is a complete, dynamic composition that can stand on its own and yet all have similarities that definitely unite them.  Bacon's traced geometry is mysterious but not at all disturbing and offers a sense of order 

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Francis Bacon - Ireland

Art Brokerage: Francis Bacon Irish Artist. b. 1909-1992. Bacon was an Irish artist and one of the most unique, engaging figurative painters to emerge during the post-war period. His grotesque imagery—contorted limbs, howling mouths agape, blood—served as method of exploring nihilism and death at a time when Europe had been repeatedly savaged by war. Inspired by both the Old Masters and Surrealism, Bacon produced several compositions based on the work of other painters, notably including his arresting Study After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953). In this iconic work, Bacon transforms Diego Velazquez’s classic portrait into a screaming, terrifying figure. “I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs,” he once said. “The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.” Born on October 28, 1909 in Dublin, Ireland, the self-taught artist moved to London to escape a hostile home life. Bacon became part of the local art scene in the British capital, which included his friends Lucian Freud, Isabel Lambert, and John Deakin. After the death of Bacon’s lover in 1972, his work became even more personalized, with a renewed focus on mortality. In 1963, a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York brought international prestige, which continued until his death on April 28, 1992 in Madrid, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hugh Lane in Dublin, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others. Listings wanted.